Argentina: Official figures show 70 dead but it would reach 80

Buenos Aires -

Minister of Health of the Nation, Juan Manzur, admitted this morning that the fatal vítcimas amount to 70 although the figure does not count all cases that were confirmed in the provinces and reach 80. In Santa Fe added 22. As the minister in the Congress is talking with the presidents of the benches of the Senate.

"Until yesterday afternoon to the patients who died and who have been diagnosed with H1N1 are present 70. There are patients who have died previously, and we are waiting for diagnosis," said the official.

Meanwhile, yesterday, four other provinces reported 7 deaths from influenza A in Argentina, bringing the unofficial total fatalities in the new flu would reach 80.

Three new deaths were reported yesterday in Santa Fe, so in that province are those killed by the 21 previously called "swine flu". Thus becomes the second jurisdiction with more deaths from this cause, after the province of Buenos Aires, which accounts for 43.

In addition, yesterday the health authorities of San Juan last week confirmed that a baby died only eight months when he was transferred in an aircraft emergency health, while in Santa Cruz was killed two years of a child from the flu.

Finally, in the town of Cordoba San Francisco, a man of 39 years and a woman of 26 years, 12 days before that mother had been killed yesterday by the influenza A, published the newspaper Clarin.

Other confirmed deaths
The director of the Epidemiology of San Juan, Frida Cappato, on Monday reported the first death by the new flu. The victim was 38 years and "did not belong to any risk group." This is a "housewife" who had no background disease. The official said the woman suffered "complications" as a result of the flu and would have had a multiorgan failure. "

Meanwhile, the Undersecretary of Health Neuquén announced that day that, according to the results of a sample sent to the Institute Malbrán, one person died of influenza A in the province.

Opposition parties have alleged that the Government of Jamaica is not paying enough attention to the virus and this in turn causes tension among the population. (With informacióin EFE / MVC)
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